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...housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
...face of a continuing pattern of Administration ineptitude and the emotional tug of the Wallace candidacy, how does Reuther orient his strategy? His chief emphasis must rest with positive assurance that there will emerge a politically successful alternative to conservative weighting of the Democratic Party. On March 3 the UAW consequently proclaimed its alternative: "formation after the 1948 national elections of a genuine progressive political party." Harsh charges are made against the Wallace move: that "this third party is...a Communist Party maneuver to advance the foreign policy interests of the Soviet Union"; that "this party has neither the organizational...
Perhaps the committee worked just a trifle too hard. The constitution that has been fashioned is, if nothing else, a marvel of complexity. In three concise sentences it lists the Society's purposes--to be hosts for visiting firemen, to orient new freshmen, and to perform other hospitable services. These, indeed, are worthy aims. But, rather than setting up a small, workable committee to put them into practice, the Council's group has drafted a long and involved hierarchy of committees. The actual work is to be done by a fairly large group of sophomore and junior candidates; formation...
...peasant and Bedouin knows his name. He likes to dress dramatically, to fit his dramatic legend. His favorite . garments: a fleece-lined flying jacket, or long sheep-lined cape draped over his shoulders. After his escape from France last year (TIME, March 10, 1947), crowds often appeared before the Orient Palace Hotel in Damascus, and clamored to see him. He began every speech with the words: "I am not a man of words; I am a man of action." The crowd loved...
Professor Pound, who is now in the Orient helping unify Chinese laws, made his observations in this morning's Law School Record...